Update: Bottlenose Dolphin Strandings Continue in Historic Numbers

Published August 21, 2013

More than 200 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have washed ashore along the East Coast this summer. This alarming number is seven times higher than what's normally seen in the Mid-Atlantic region - a statistic which caused the National Marine Fisheries Service to declare an "unusual mortality event."

Unfortunately, following the declaration of the the event last week, the has been no curb in the number of dolphins stranding on our shores. It is estimated that 25 dolphins were found in Virginia just over the weekend.

"We don't know exactly what's causing it, but we suspect it might be a virus called the morbillivirus," our VP of Biological Programs, Brent Whitaker, told CNN's Brian Todd yesterday during an interview here in Baltimore. Click below to watch the entire interview: